Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I've probably mentioned before that cooking hasn't ever been my favorite thing to do. BUT, I'm convinced that this artist is going to have so much more fun creating dishes with these beautiful, anniversary gift, measuring cups and spoons! Aren't they the prettiest?

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

After I was asked to create yesterday's wedding shadow box, I was inspired to use the same medium for my anniversary gift to Brian. I had never used a shadow box before and it seemed like there would be lots of neat possibilities. After quite a bit of perusing of the art store for some inspiration, I settled on using small squares of wood to create the "story" of our last 5 years together. On each of the 12 panels (1'x1'), I painted a little scene depicting something having to do with our marriage thus far. Then I attached a small block of wood to the back before mounting it in the shadow box, to give it some nice depth. I was nervous about how it would turn out, but Brian loved it and that's really all that counts, right?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

A friend from church asked me to help her out with a shadow box that she has been wanting to put together from memorabilia from her wedding. I took it home and had a lot of fun arranging the invitation, program, corsages and other dried flowers (let's face it, I'm loving anything that gets my mind off of every ache and pain that makes me wonder if I'm going into labor!). I thought it was a really nice idea and kind of wish I had done something similar with my wedding "stuff". Ahh, c'est la vie!

All you need to make your own shadow box is a glue gun and the ephemera and flowers that you want displayed. It's an easy way to display the lovely things that usually just get stored in boxes for years.

I was kind of inspired by this project and have another very different shadow box post in store for you tomorrow...

Monday, July 18, 2011

- seeing old friends and family- a plethora of BBQs- Wii dancing with the small groupies- 5 years of marriage- the smell of clean laundry- temperate summer days- chocolate fondue- Brian-arranged anniversary flowers

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Being "showered" with lots and lots of love and gifts calls for lots and lots of thank you notes! Since my first shower was Noah's ark themed, I went with the same motif for my cards. I think it's always special to receive a homemade card and this is a great way to do it if you want to make something personalized but need to make them in bulk!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

So, for Brian's birthday, I took him to see the musical, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Seacoast Repertory Theater in Portsmouth, NH.

Before the show, a woman walked around asking if anyone wanted to volunteer to be a part of the spelling bee in the show. Of course when Brian was asked, he enthusiastically agreed to be put on the list. Lo and behold, 2 minutes into the play, he was called up to the stage! We thought that if he was called, he might spell a word or two, then go back to his seat. No, he was on stage for half of the show, literally until intermission! He was actually doing so well in the spelling bee, that they had to keep on calling him up to give him harder words so that he would get one wrong. They finally got him with some ridiculous word meaning "the fear of walking backwards into a doorknob". It was such a fun night(despite me sitting alone for an hour!) and I was quite proud of my super-speller!